Existing PV farm
Existing land, interconnection, and 100 MWdc+ PV. Dual-purpose the array as a 24/7 cooling asset. Modular compute plus the same thermal plant. Optional CSP, TES, and ORC. Then qualified heat recovery. No field expansion.
Platform
Cooling-first infrastructure on land that is already connected.
A cooling overlay on the PV farm you already have. Phase 0 is 50 MW. Phase 1 is 58 MW, cooling only. Phase 2 stays on the grid at 153 MW. Phase 3 is full off-grid at 175 MW. On the same site. Not a new interconnect.
Existing 100 MWdc PV farm. Phase 0 is 50 MW, Phase 1 is 58 MW, then 153 MW on the grid, then 175 MW full off-grid.
Constrained AI campus
Existing compute and power envelope. Needs adjacent land — ideally with PV already installed. Ambient-air, buried-loop, and cold-storage cooling first. Additional compute on the existing generation interconnect next. Optional AI heat recovery after uptime isolation. Qualified generator recovery last.
Cooling first
The thermal layer is the compute unlock.
Phase 1 is open cassette rows and an air-cooled chiller. No dry coolers. No cooling towers.
Phase 2 and Phase 3 share one reject field. Jacket water sets the acres. About 76 acres, then 94.
Commercial sequence
- 01
Cooling first. About 50 MW of firm IT. No engines.
- 02
Then engines, still on the grid. 153 MW.
- 03
Then full off-grid. 175 MW. On the same site.
Phase 0
Existing site
Months, not years
- Modular halls on land you already have.
- Cooling that can run before the overlay is finished.
- Uptime is the first commercial gate.
- Farm or campus — same order.
Workloads start while cooling is built.
Phase 1
Cooling
6–12 months
- Open cassette rows on a slice of the field. The rest stays PV.
- An air-cooled chiller covers what the rows do not. No dry coolers. No towers.
- Inside the existing fence. Same interconnect.
- This is the baseline the later phases grow from.
About 50 MW of firm IT. No engines.
Phase 2
Grid + engines
After the hall is up
- 48 gas engines and one spare. Still on the grid.
- Jacket heat and a small share of hall heat climb to the heat engine.
- Reject field is shared. Jacket water sets the acres, not the condenser alone.
- About $369.6 million a year. About $440 million above Phase 1.
153 MW firm IT. About 1.87 years.
Phase 3
Full off-grid
After the engines are in
- 12 larger engines, 45 of the same class, and 4 spare.
- On the same acreage, about 500 acres. No import.
- Shared reject field, about 94 acres. Jacket water still sets the size.
- About $405.2 million a year. About $648 million above Phase 1.
175 MW firm IT. Full off-grid. 2.22 years.
Pecos planning case
100 MWdc farm · Phase 0 is 50 MW · Phase 1 is 58 MW · then 153 and 175 MW · same acreage. Pecos, Texas. The plant starts at 50 MW. Phase 1 is 58 MW, about $175.5 million a year, with no engines. Phase 2 is 153 MW on the grid, about $369.6 million a year, and pays for itself in 1.87 years. Phase 3 is 175 MW off the grid, about $405.2 million a year, in 2.22 years. The engine phases need a gas supply sized for them. Illustrative. Not a permit.
Two days at Pecos
Phase 0. A hall running 50 MW of computers.
These bars are that hall on a hot June day and a cold December day. Phase 1 is 58 MW and has no engines. Phase 2 is 153 MW and stays on the grid. Phase 3 is 175 MW and leaves the grid. The hour-by-hour set is on the cooling page.
17 June · hour-average temperature 44.4 °C at 15:00. Local standard time.
PV to the hallBatteryGridY-axis: MW
- PV to the hall
- 592.7 MWh · 49.4%
- Battery
- 92.2 MWh · 7.7%
- Grid
- 515.1 MWh · 42.9%
100 MWdc Existing PV Farm Conversion Case
Same ~500-acre site. Phase 0 is 50 MW. Phase 1 is 58 MW. Phase 2 stays on the grid at 153 MW. Phase 3 is full off-grid at 175 MW. Shared reject is about 35 acres, then 76, then 94.
See the conversion case on Economics.Revive PV
Aging modules become a recoverable asset.
Repowering an existing PV farm should not start with a dumpster. Recover what can run. Recycle what cannot.
01
Remove
On-site take-down and triage. What can run stays in the loop.
02
Repair
Inspect, recoat, repair, and test in a two-container mobile factory.
03
Redeploy
Put recovered modules back to work. Recycle the rest.